For Immediate Release

Franz Extends GRUFF, its RDF Browser for Data Discovery
and Visual Query Building

Gruff v4 and AllegroGraph Power Discovery
for CRM, SEO, Security, Social Networking, Banking, and Telco
Applications

OAKLAND, Calif. — August 20, 2012 - Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Graph Database
technology for the Semantic Web, today announced Gruff v4, the industry's leading RDF browser
to view graph data, explore connections within data, and visually
build queries without writing code. In addition, Gruff allows users
to easily visualize the RDFa embedded metadata on websites and combine
with open or proprietary data to infer new facts.

The free-form nature of Graph style data offers a lot of
flexibility for constructing databases, but that freedom can also make
it less obvious how to find arbitrary data for retrieval, error
checking, or general browsing. Gruff is a graphical Resource
Description Framework (RDF) database browser which makes data
retrieval more pleasant and powerful by providing a variety of tools
for laying out cyclical graphs, displaying tables of properties,
managing queries, and building SPARQL and Prolog queries as visual
diagrams.

"Gruff allows for easy viewing of graph style data and provides an
easy on-ramp for non-technical users to engage the Semantic Web." said
Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz, Inc. "Users can easily create queries
visually without knowing the query language of the Semantic Web -
SPARQL, which further empowers the business user for this technology."

Key Features in Gruff v4:

Creating and Editing RDF triples/quads - Data editing in the
graph view. Triples can now be created, reversed, and deleted in the
graph view, this functionality is also available in the table
view.

Visual Query Builder - allows creating queries as diagrams of
nodes and links. A query diagram can include actual objects from the
store, which you select as in other views, while other nodes and links
represent query variables. Group graph patterns such as UNION and
OPTIONAL groups can be laid out as grouper boxes that can be nested to
any level, with proper nesting maintained automatically.

Outline View - for browsing and editing linked nodes as an
indented outline. It is especially useful for viewing hierarchies of
nodes such as those using rdfs:subClassOf or skos:narrower predicates,
and editing them by shifting nodes around (perhaps while adding new
nodes as well).

Reification support in the graph view. The graph view now displays
reification intuitively by drawing a link line from a reifying subject
node directly to the middle of the link line for the triple that it
reifies. Also, if a link line's triple is reified, then a command on
its pop-up menu allows you to display a reifying triple.

RDFa Viewer - Companies like Overstock, BestBuy, Tesco and many
others are using RDFa in their web pages to optimize search. Other
companies are choosing to make their "metadata" about their product
catalogs available via RDFa. This development is primarily driven by
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) considerations; however, there is a
great opportunity to use this recently available metadata for new
types of services. Gruff has the ability extract the RDFa from a
website with a simple cut and paste of the URL. The data is then
easily viewed in Gruff's graph, table, or outline views.

Gruff v4 is available as a free download from the Franz website.
The product runs on Mac OSX, Windows, Linux and is offered as a
standalone application or client-server for remote users.

Franz VP of Corporate Development
will also be discussing these new capabilities at the September
Artificial Intelligence Special Sessions on Semantic Technology
Applications (AISS 2012) in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. AISS 2012 is
organized by MIMOS BERHAD and co-located with other events during the
Knowledge Technology Week 2012 (KTW2012).

AllegroGraph is the only NoSQL database to achieve the loading of
over 1 Trillion RDF Triples, a major step forward in scalability for
the Semantic Web. AllegroGraph is a modern high-performance database
that continues to raise the bar in Web 3.0 database
scalability. Disk-based storage allows the database to scale to
billions of triples while maintaining superior
performance. AllegroGraph 4.9 is an enterprise-class database with
ACID transactions, full recovery, 100% read concurrency, online
backups, dynamic and automatic indexing, advanced free text indexing,
deletion of duplicate triples, and now, warm standby, replication, and
point in time recovery.

About Franz Inc.

Franz Inc. is a leading
vendor of Semantic Technology, Common Lisp tools and Professional
Services. Franz Inc. recently introduced Allegro SET, the industry's
first Semantic Entity Tracker, a leading-edge development platform to
build flexible and scalable semantic applications quickly and
cost-effectively.

Franz's graph database, AllegroGraph®, has been an industry leader
for several years and provides a scalable storage layer for powerful
Complex Event Processing applications that incorporate GeoTemporal
Reasoning, Social Network Analytics and Ontology Modeling capabilities
and operates as the core of Allegro SET.

Franz's Professional Service team is in the business of helping
companies turn Data into Information and Information into
Knowledge. We combine Data, Business Intelligence, and Analytics
consulting services under one roof for our customers.

Franz Inc., an American owned company based in Oakland,
California, is committed to market-driven product development, the
highest levels of product quality and responsive customer support and
service.

Franz customers include Fortune 500 companies in the government,
life sciences and telecommunications industries. Franz has
demonstrated consistent growth and profitability since inception. For
more information, visit www.franz.com.

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